
Giovanni's Room

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.”
James Baldwin • Giovanni's Room
the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
James Baldwin • Giovanni's Room
People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness,
James Baldwin • Giovanni's Room
Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
James Baldwin • Giovanni's Room
a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but